Started in earlier Classic, raided "hard core" up from T1 till T4 in early TBC. Left for about 9 months then came back and raided at a much more casual pace with a different guild all thru WotLk and Cataclysm. Left at the start of MoP for about 1 year, just recently came back, and I do strictly LFR, I will never again do anykind of scheduled raiding.

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No option for when I started raiding, EQ vanilla. I still raid once a week. I did take a break for most of Wrath though due to burnout. Stepping away for a while may give you a new appreciation. I'd recommend doing it now since enough time may pass by the time WoD comes out that you may decide you want to give raiding another go.

Biased poll is naturally biased. It's not really an interesting conversation involved in this poll as it is effectively being used not for the intended purpose, but to assert that LFR is not raiding. I raided in Vanilla and I still raid, using LFR and Flex.

Biased poll is naturally biased. It's not really an interesting conversation involved in this poll as it is effectively being used not for the intended purpose, but to assert that LFR is not raiding. I raided in Vanilla and I still raid, using LFR and Flex.

What the hell are you talking about?

I raid LFR and Flex and think they're 2 of the best features Blizzard have added in the last 2 expansions, but this is a thread about organised raiding i.e raiding intended for guilds with set time schedules.

Stop looking for reasons to get offended.

This thread is to see if people still commit set days a week to raiding and if it tends to be older players who do it or if most are burnt out by now and leave it to newer players, now stop trying to derail it with your bollocks about the validity of LFR/Flex

EARLY NOTE BEFORE VOTING: I AM MAKING THE POLL ANONYMOUS, SO DON'T BOTHER LYING ALL IT DOES IT NEEDLESSLY SKEW THE NUMBERS.
BY RAIDING I MEAN ORGANISED RAIDING, NOT FLEX PUGS OR LFR

So I am actually interested in how long many players have been raiding, or if people still bother, particularly the older players. Personally I raided from vanilla-->Early Cata, and since then i've lost the drive to get into real raiding, I guess it's the whole "been there done that kind of thing".

So I was wondering if other people are the same and eventually grew bored of organised raiding, or if people still raid after long periods of time?

Raiding since BC. Missed much of MoP due to RL issues, but fully intend to raid Mythic in WoD (and probably end up getting carried through the rest of SoO when I decide on a guild since it's already older content, but that doesn't really count).

Biased poll is naturally biased. It's not really an interesting conversation involved in this poll as it is effectively being used not for the intended purpose, but to assert that LFR is not raiding. I raided in Vanilla and I still raid, using LFR and Flex.

LFR and Flex can be picked up and dropped on the spot, they stand in no relation to real organized raiding.

Well, I seem to really be in the minority, I played a bit in TBC, quit before max level, (computer/ internet sucked too much). I started playing last year and now am in a progression minded guild as one of their tanks in a 10 man core. I have to say from what I know, most people in my guild have at least played since WotLK or BC, guild really formed in Cata with serious raiding

This thread is to see if people still commit set days a week to raiding and if it tends to be older players who do it or if most are burnt out by now and leave it to newer players, now stop trying to derail it with your bollocks about the validity of LFR/Flex

I'm clearly not offended as my language is civil and not escalating. This is a discussion forum and I'm free to think your survey is lacking. If you don't like people criticizing your choices, go back to anonymity. It doesn't matter what you 'feel' it matters what the poll accomplishes. In my eyes it does exactly what I stated it does. If you don't like it, grow some thicker skin. No one is after you in a witch hunt.

I'm clearly not offended as my language is civil and not escalating. This is a discussion forum and I'm free to think your survey is lacking. If you don't like people criticizing your choices, go back to anonymity. It doesn't matter what you 'feel' it matters what the poll accomplishes. In my eyes it does exactly what I stated it does. If you don't like it, grow some thicker skin. No one is after you in a witch hunt.

You made this statement

"as it is effectively being used not for the intended purpose, but to assert that LFR is not raiding"

Not a single person in this thread has made that comment or that leap except you, everybody else has taken the thread for what it is, a survey on somebody interested in how many people are still involved in regular, organised raiding.

If you're butthurt about people's opinions of LFR and Flex, then go and make a thread about it or post in one of the 1000000 threads already made, but this thread is not intended for that, so please stop attempting to derail it.

Hardcore raiding in Vanilla, casual raiding in TBC, Hardcore raiding thrugh half of Wrath then casual after Ulduar, casual in Cata and Hardcore in MoP.

I always want to be #1, in anything I do, but the expansions I have done casual raiding has been either due to lack of time to put in or lack of fun content. Ive basicly been playing the same class thrugh it all aswell.

Raided in vanilla, TBC and WoTLK with breaks in between. Currently doing LFR (and did flex 2 wings!) while catching up on Cata/MoP content.

I don't see point in doing harder content. For me once boss is dead, its dead. Killing it with more hp and extra abilities doesn't make it new, so I'm ok with LFR/Flex. Maybe I'll do normal once geared up for proper organized raiding experience.

Raided heavily in classic, guild fell sadly fell apart after several migrations to and from that realm, and having a bad guild merger at that.
This was around when AQ40 came out, so I didn't get to do much of AQ 40, and barely set foot in naxxramas.

In TBC I raided more casually in a not so good guild, almost quit in TBC because I was so far behind and didn't get to raid as much as I wanted to.

WotLK continued to be casual raiding for me, but at least my guild cleared most of Ulduar when it was current content. So I was happy about that. But internal guild drama killed that guild as well.

Cata I didn't do anything else than LFR, not even PuG's.
And it's the same now in MoP.

I was pretty much fed up about guild drama and simply couldn't bother anymore. Might be something in Flex raiding for me, but going to wait until warlords to try that out.
Don't see the point in starting now at the end of the expansion.